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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Buildings adjoining or belonging to dwelling houses. Buildings subservient to, yet distinct from, the principal mansion house, located either within or without the curtilage.

1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 175; 4 Conn. 46; 4 Gill & J. (Md.) 402; 2 Craw. & D. 479.

Any house standing out and apart from houses where people reside, or where business is transacted.

15 Tex. 260.

A building appurtenant to some main building. A school house is not an outhouse.

10 Conn. 143.